Long term assessment of axonal regeneration through polyimide regenerative electrodes to interface the peripheral nerve

Biomaterials

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2021-2031

  Lago, Natalia ^a   Ceballos, Dolores ^a   J Rodríguez, Francisco ^a   Stieglitz, Thomas ^b   Navarro, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interface; Motor axons; Nerve regeneration; Neural prosthesis; Peripheral nerve; Polyimide; Regenerative electrode

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; HISTOLOGY; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYIMIDES;

AXONAL REGENERATION; HISTOLOGICAL METHODS; MYELINATED FIBERS; SCIATIC NERVES;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; POLYIMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ELECTRODE; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMPLANTATION; LEG MUSCLE; MOTOR NERVE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SCIATIC NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GUIDED TISSUE REGENERATION; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 9644252908     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2004.06.025     Document Type: Article

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